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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bena tell the bandits?
(a) That Miri is the prince's choice for real.
(b) That Olana is a lowlander.
(c) That Britta is a lowlander.
(d) What Miri told them.

2. What does Miri begin to relate?
(a) Nothing; she is gagged.
(b) A story about bandits being chased out of Mount Eskel.
(c) A story about the ghosts around the area that punish wrongdoers.
(d) A story about a dead princess who kills bandits.

3. About what does Britta teach Miri?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Intricate dance steps.
(c) Lineage.
(d) Gardens.

4. What does Miri remember is in her pocket?
(a) A small knife for peeling fruit.
(b) The linder hawk.
(c) A letter opener.
(d) A jagged piece of linder she had found.

5. What worries Esa concerning the prince?
(a) He will know about her dubious family background.
(b) He will choose based on looks alone.
(c) He will dismiss choosing her because of her injured arm.
(d) He will not want any of the girls.

6. What do the girls talk about one day after class concerning why they were at the academy?
(a) If the prince will actually return.
(b) If they really want to be a princess.
(c) If the prince will help their village.
(d) If the academy was some sort of ruse.

7. How is the prince when the girls are introduced?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Shy.
(c) Charming.
(d) Flirtatious.

8. To what does Miri awaken?
(a) The sound of Frid screaming.
(b) The sound of Olana screaming.
(c) The sound of Peder calling to her in quarry-speech.
(d) The snores of the bandits.

9. Where does Dan plan to go eventually?
(a) Mount Eskel.
(b) Back to the bandits' camp.
(c) Asland.
(d) He has no plans.

10. What does Dan do when Pa rushes to save Miri?
(a) Threatens to take Miri with him.
(b) Throws a stone at Pa.
(c) Threatens to kill Miri.
(d) Pushes Miri to the ground and draws his knife.

11. What does Miri hear from Esa in quarry speech?
(a) To run.
(b) To go after Peder.
(c) To wait there for her.
(d) To go after the prince.

12. What do the girls worry will keep the prince from returning?
(a) He will find someone back home.
(b) His father will change his mind about choosing a princess from Mount Eskel.
(c) He does not find any of them attractive.
(d) Snow.

13. What does Britti tell Miri?
(a) She does not want to become a princess.
(b) She loves another man.
(c) She is a servant to one of the noble families in town.
(d) She knows the prince.

14. What is coming up in the Fall?
(a) The Fall equinox.
(b) A dance.
(c) A harvest festival.
(d) The Prince's visit.

15. What does Miri realize she wants to do for the village?
(a) Ask the prince for better status.
(b) Be their trader.
(c) Teach everyone.
(d) Build a meeting hall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Britta think the prince will choose?

2. What does Olana allow the girls to do in the summer?

3. What does Frid say to the bandits?

4. Towards what is Dan inching?

5. What do the traders bring each time they come to the village?

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